{"id":305741,"date":"2018-11-17T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305741"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:01:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:01:09","slug":"brigadier-kuldip-singh-chandpuri-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/brigadier-kuldip-singh-chandpuri-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri dies at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305742 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kuldip-singh--300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kuldip-singh--300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kuldip-singh-.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, the hero of the famous Longewala battle, died on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chandpuri, who was suffering from cancer, died in a private hospital in Mohali, Punjab. He was 78.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was a major in the Indian Army during the war of 1971. The war, which saw\u00a0India defeat Pakistan, led to the liberation of Bangladesh, for which he was awarded\u00a0Maha Vir Chakra\u00a0by the Government of India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chandpuri with just 120 soldiers fought against a sizeable Pakistani infantry brigade and armoured battalion &#8211; that made him an inspirational figure for citizens at large. His inspirational leadership ensured that the approaching Pakistani enemy was forced to leave the Warfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Born on 22 November 1940, Chandpuri was recruited into the Indian Army in 1962.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh expressed grief on the demise of Kuldip Singh Chandpuri. Singh called Chandpuri &#8220;a very brave and distinguished soldier&#8221; and said that the &#8220;nation is poorer&#8221; with his death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cVery sorry to learn of the sad demise of Brigadier KS Chandpuri, MVC. He was a very brave and distinguished soldier and the hero of the Battle of Longewala. The nation is poorer with his passing away. My heartfelt condolences to his family,\u201d Capt. Amarinder tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A famous Bollywood movie Border was based on the battle, showcased the valiant efforts of the soldiers at Longewala.\u00a0Actor Sunny Deol played Brigadier\u00a0Chandpuri&#8217;s character in the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri, the hero of the famous Longewala battle, died on Saturday. Chandpuri, who was suffering from cancer, died in a private hospital in Mohali, Punjab. He was 78. He was a major in the Indian Army during the war of 1971. The war, which saw\u00a0India defeat Pakistan, led to the liberation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9746,9747,2390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305744,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305741\/revisions\/305744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}